“The darker the wax, the older the wax is.”
Filiberto Martinez
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.”
W. E. B. Du Bois
“So when that Angel of the darker Drink At last shall find you by the river-brink, And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul Forth to your Lips to to quaff - you shall not shrink”
Omar Khayyam
“The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue”
Samuel Johnson
“White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion”
William Paley
“[You should know that Weisz, who's a darker and more enigmatic version of Kate Winslet , is taken. She was accompanied to the party by] Requiem for a Dream ... The Fountain.”
Darren Aronofsky
“It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising."”
Charles Dickens
